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EVERYWHERE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

To or in any or all places

Example:

looked all over for a suitable gift

Synonyms:

all over; everyplace; everywhere

Classified under:

Adverbs

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Germs are tiny living things that are found everywhere - in air, soil and water.

(Infectious Diseases, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

The individual tumor cells are surrounded by reticulin everywhere, are negative for muscle, nerve sheath, and epithelial markers, and are positive for CD34 and CD99.

(Hemangiopericytoma, NCI Thesaurus)

“I cannot at the moment recall any possible blunder which you have omitted. The total effect of your proceeding has been to give the alarm everywhere and yet to discover nothing.”

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Save the dull piping of insects and the sough of the leaves, there was silence everywhere—the sweet restful silence of nature.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This snail species is nature's best host and can be found everywhere in Brazil where schistosomiasis is reported, due to its distribution and susceptibility to the parasite.

(Scientists sequence genome of snail linked to schistosomiasis, Agência Brasil)

"A few of these caves are in national parks, but there's a lot of poaching everywhere."

(Snakes Hunt in Groups, Study Suggests, VOA)

The student looked about everywhere; and seeing no one, and not knowing where the voice came from, cried out, “Who calls me?”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It's everywhere, and nearer to the surface with higher latitudes.

(Where is the Ice on Ceres?, NASA)

This study demonstrates that marine plastics are far more abundant than anyone realized and can be found potentially everywhere in the ocean.

(Microplastics million times more abundant in the ocean than previously thought, National Science Foundation)

People encounter stressful situations and stimuli everywhere, every day, and studies have shown that long-term stress can contribute to a broad array of health problems.

(Researchers identify brain circuits that help people cope with stress, NIH)